Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Mapping household income, neighborhood by neighborhood, across all of Texas via Austin Business Journal

Our journey through the most-recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey continues with a look at median household income across all of Texas.

Readers may remember Austin Business Journal's most-recent Texas-wide map, which examined how median home value estimates are changing in each Census tract throughout the Lone Star state.

But this map takes a more granular approach by examining median household income by Census block group. Block groups are smaller than Census tracts, which typically contain between two to four block groups. According to the Census Bureau, each block group has between 250 and 550 households, and Census guidelines state the ideal size of a block group is 400 households. In terms of sample size, it's one of the more uniform demographic samples produced by the Census Bureau.

Read more...Mapping household income, neighborhood by neighborhood, across all of Texas - Austin Business Journal

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